The first is replacing DCs with a Development Levy System, The second is establishing regulatory oversight of Development Levies to ensure charges are fair and appropriate, The third is increasing the ...

The Government has agreed to introduce legislation that will enable a four-year term of Parliament subject to a referendum, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says. “As stipulated in the National-Act ...

New Zealand’s public hospitals are facing a doctor shortage, yet Health New Zealand—the bureaucratic body overseeing our public health system—continues to artificially limit the number of hospital ...

Wellington Water chairman Nick Leggett is right to “pause for thought” about whether his position is tenable, given the company he is accountable for has ripped off ratepayers. More scathing reports ...

The ABC's 2025 federal election coverage will be the last to feature Antony Green AO in an on-air role. The national broadcaster's chief election analyst is stepping down after more than 30 years in a ...

Local Government NZ president Sam Broughton intends to embark on a fight-back against the Government’s most contentious “back to basics” proposal: caps on rates rises. According to the Government’s ...

Health Minister Simeon Brown says he will demand an explanation from the Pharmacy Council over its competence standards for pharmacists, which have been described as “deeply disturbing.” It follows ...

Some media commentators have taken these high level resignations as a sign of trouble within the Government - that implicitly, these resignations are a bad thing. I take the contrary view, that ...

The wowsers would have you believe that since alcohol laws were liberalised in 1989, it has been a disaster. In fact alcohol consumption is down massively. Abuse of alcohol certainly does still cause ...

Wellington bar owner Greig Wilson is in a dispute with the Wellington City Council after being told he couldn't distribute pamphlets advertising his bars during O-week at Victoria University. Wilson s ...

An Auckland-based Canadian billionaire previously linked to an alternative news venture has taken a substantial shareholding in NZME, the owner of the NZ Herald, Newstalk ZB and BusinessDesk. In a ...